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Hazel's Field Atlas of America hardcover standing on a pale oak table with fir branches and cranberry ribbon; Hazel and Dad look out across the painted mountains, prairie and wetlands
Field Atlas of America for Christmas

A field atlas of their own for Christmas

Seven habitats, 39 animals and your home state. Add their photo and preview the cover, title page and first habitat free. No card.

4.7 · 500+ reviews

Natural-history chapters reviewed by top institutions and a panel of field experts.

  • American Museum of Natural History
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • University of Washington
  • University of Puget Sound
  • Wild Fish Conservancy
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From $69.9982-page hardcover · 8.5 × 11 in · free contiguous US shipping
Look inside

Take a closer look inside

Open a habitat scene, then study one of its animals. Each view pairs the book’s pages with something to notice together.

Pages 6–7 · Both Atlas editions

Start at the beaver pond

A short story opens the habitat. Labels and a look-and-find list give your child somewhere to start looking.

A fact to follow

Water is a habitat

Fresh surface waters, such as streams, rivers, ponds and lakes, provide habitat, a natural home, for many kinds of plants and animals.

Source: EPA
Try it together

Find the American beaver in the painting. Then look for the wood duck, river otter and green darner listed in the field notes.

Where would you begin looking?Reveal the answer

Start at the pond. Follow a label to an animal, then use the list to choose what to find next.

How it works

1 · Make it theirs

Choose their home state and add their name and photo. A grown-up can join from a second photo.

2 · Preview it free

See your child on the cover and in a habitat, plus your home-state landscape, before you pay.

3 · Order and approve

Review every page and change the dedication before print. We print after you approve. Full refund until you approve the print.

The last chapter comes home

A different chapter for every home state

Choose from all 50 states. Its six-page home-state chapter brings together a map, a landscape and wildlife studies, with your child’s name on the map page.

Open selected pages from the chapter. Look at the places, read an animal account and follow the map.

Home · Colorado

Colorado, up close

Landscape
Rocky Mountain National Park
Animal study
American beaver
Inside your Atlas
6 pages · 3 spreads
From the Colorado chapter

Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park covers 415 square miles.

Source: National Park Service
Places in the map spread
  • Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
  • Mesa Verde National Park
  • Rocky Mountain National Park

What makes it theirs

01

Their name and home

Their name on the cover, title page and state map. A home pin on the cover and their state on the title page.

02

Their painted likeness

Your child appears in the cover, title-page vignette and seven habitat openers, painted from their photo. Add one grown-up from a second photo.

03

Their state chapter

The map, featured landscape and animal studies change with the state you choose. Your dedication is printed on the title page.

All 50 home-state chapters are available to choose. Delivery is currently to the contiguous US and Washington, DC.

Read the Colorado chapter sample and try a reading activity →

Choose your Atlas
Seven chapters

Seven habitats, one field skill in each

Each chapter opens on a painted spread of a real American habitat with your child in the scene. They learn the skill there, then use it to find that habitat's animals.

Explore all seven habitats and field skills
  1. Fresh water opener spread with Hazel pointing out a beaver lodge
    Habitat 1 of 7

    Fresh water

    Field skill: spot it first

    The creek slows into a wide pond, and Hazel spots the beaver lodge before Dad does.

  2. Wetland opener spread with Hazel and Dad sitting in the reeds
    Habitat 2 of 7

    Wetland

    Field skill: sit and wait

    Hazel wants to run straight to the reeds. They sit for a long time, and a crane walks out of the mist.

  3. Forest opener spread with Hazel holding binoculars
    Habitat 3 of 7

    Forest

    Field skill: be quiet

    Something is drumming on a dead tree. Hazel holds very still and doesn't say a word.

  4. Grassland opener spread with Hazel crouched in the grass
    Habitat 4 of 7

    Grassland

    Field skill: get down low

    Nose to the stems, Hazel finds a snake sliding by, then a butterfly.

  5. Desert opener spread with Hazel and Dad at sunrise
    Habitat 5 of 7

    Desert

    Field skill: come back at sunrise

    At noon nothing moved, so the next day Hazel wakes Dad before the sun.

  6. Mountain and tundra opener spread with Hazel using binoculars
    Habitat 6 of 7

    Mountain and tundra

    Field skill: look far

    Up high everything is far away. Hazel finds a white speck on the cliff and lifts the binoculars.

  7. Coast opener spread with Hazel and Dad on the rocks
    Habitat 7 of 7

    Coast

    Field skill: time the tide

    The tide is going out. Rocks that were underwater this morning are dry, so they climb down to look.

Add plants inside your Atlas

Flora + Fauna Atlas

+$15.00

Everything in the Personalized Field Atlas, plus 26 plants on eight painted spreads. Find them in their habitats, with field notes and entries in the index.

  • All 39 animals, seven habitats and your home-state chapter
  • 26 plants on 8 extra spreads, adding 16 pages
  • One 98-page, 8.5 × 11 in full-color hardcover

The plants are printed inside the same hardcover.

Choose your books above
Pages 52–53 · Flora + Fauna upgrade

Follow a plant below the soil

The Flora + Fauna edition adds plant spreads. This one connects flowers, leaves, pods and the underground stem in one continuous illustration.

A fact to follow

A stem underground

Common milkweed grows from a deep rhizome, a stem that runs underground.

Leaves in opposite pairs

Its broad, egg-shaped to oval leaves grow in opposite pairs.

Source: USDA plant guide
Try it together

Start at the flowers and follow the stem all the way down to the deep rhizome. The enlarged details help you examine small features; they are not to scale.

What is a rhizome?Reveal the answer

A stem that runs underground.

Add a separate notebook

Personalized Field Notebook

+$15.00

A separate book for your child's own sightings and sketches, personalized with their name and home state. Add it to either Atlas edition and take it outside together.

  • 56 pages with 23 pairs of sighting logs and sketch pages
  • 6 × 9 in matte softcover with writable, uncoated paper
  • Field skills, discoveries near home and return visits to compare

Optional with either Atlas edition.

Choose your books above
Expert review

Who checked the natural history

The people and institutions below reviewed the natural-history chapters before print.

  • American Museum of Natural History

    Reviewed in consultation with the American Museum of Natural History

  • National Wildlife Federation

    Reviewed in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation

  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    Bird accounts reviewed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

  • University of Washington

    Reviewed by researchers at the University of Washington

  • University of Puget Sound

    Reviewed by an ornithologist and author at the University of Puget Sound

  • Wild Fish Conservancy

    Reviewed by a fisheries scientist on the board of the Wild Fish Conservancy

  • Science fact-checker

    Fact checked the natural-history chapters

  • Senior research botanist

    Affiliation: Desert Botanical Garden

    Reviewed desert plants

  • Conservation ecologist, PhD

    Affiliation: Mojave Desert Land Trust

    Reviewed the desert chapter

  • Desert ecologist

    Affiliation: Mojave Desert Land Trust

    Reviewed the desert chapter

  • Plant ecologist

    Reviewed plants

  • Restoration ecologist

    Reviewed beavers and the water's edge

  • Wildlife ecologist, PhD

    Affiliation: Frostburg State University

    Reviewed the river otter account

  • Raptor biologist

    Affiliation: Coastal Raptors

    Reviewed raptors

  • Science educator, Ed.D.

    Read for age fit

  • Author

    Affiliation: Independent

    Read for age fit

  • Children's librarian

    Affiliation: King County Library System

    Read for age fit

Individual reviewers are credited by role.

Affiliations identify individual reviewers. Their reviews were undertaken personally.

Reviews cover the natural-history chapters. Home-state pages vary by edition.

Reviews of tinyshelf books

What parents say.

4.7 · 500+ reviews

From parents who ordered our personalized picture books.

“Honestly way cuter than I expected.”
Lauren B. · for Theo
“The cover looks great. he loves the story”
Jess R. · for Owen
“This felt personal! without being cheesy”
Priya K. · for Arjun
“Big hit. Zero complaints”
Alyssa M. · for Chloe
“It got carried around the house all afternoon”
Nina S. · for Mila
“Noah wanted it read twice the first night”
Rachel H. · for Noah

What's inside

  • 82 pages98 with the Flora + Fauna upgrade
  • 8.5 × 11 in hardcoverfull color on every page
  • Ages 6–12read together at 6 to 8, alone at 8 to 12
  • 39 animalsin seven habitats, plus your state's own
  • Your dedicationprinted on the title page
  • One or two photosyour child, plus one grown-up if you like

A little more to explore

Find your way into the Atlas.

Read a sample expedition

Inside Hazel’s Field Atlas of America

Read the guide →Their first expedition starts here

A personalized nature atlas with your child inside

Read the guide →For the child who stops to look

Choosing a nature book for kids ages 6 to 12

Read the guide →A gift with their next outing in it

A personalized nature gift for a curious kid

Read the guide →The expedition comes home

A personalized nature book about your child's home state

Read the guide →A little explorer. A familiar face.

A nature book starring your child and their grandparent

Read the guide →
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Frequently asked

The questions parents ask.

Who is it for?

Children about 6 to 12. Read it together at 6 to 8. From about 8, most children read the atlas text on their own.

Is this a different book from the Field Atlas of America?

This page presents the same personalized Field Atlas of America as a Christmas gift, with a cover made for your child, seven habitat chapters and a chapter about your home state.

Are the gift box and Christmas props included?

The box, tissue, ribbon, greenery and magnifier in the gallery are styling props. They are not included with the hardcover.

Who can be in the book?

Your child, alone or with one grown-up: Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa. Each is painted from their own photo.

Is the science checked?

Yes. The natural-history chapters were reviewed by the people and institutions listed on this page. The home-state chapter sits outside that review.

Which states can I choose?

All 50. You pick your home state when you order, and the last chapter is painted for it.

What does the Flora + Fauna upgrade add?

Everything in the Personalized Field Atlas, plus 26 plants on eight painted spreads. Find them in their habitats, with field notes and entries in the index. The upgrade adds 16 pages for a 98-page hardcover and costs $15.00 more.

Can I add a Field Notebook?

A separate book for your child's own sightings and sketches, personalized with their name and home state. Add it to either Atlas edition and take it outside together. It is a 56-page, 6 × 9 in softcover with 23 pairs of sighting logs and sketch pages, and costs $15.00 more.

Is my child's photo private?

Yes. Photos and details stay private and are used only to make and support your book. They are never sold or used by tinyshelf to train models. Email us if you would like a photo removed.

Is it a real hardcover?

Yes. An 8.5 × 11 in hardcover with 82 full-color pages, or 98 with the Flora + Fauna upgrade.

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